Excerpt from Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 69: The Wyoming History Journal; Winter 1997 Apparently the formal advice was not given or heeded during the next few years as overlanders competed with each other in bidding wars to secure even the most inappropriate supplies at the outfitting towns. The description given by Margaret Frink of the great variety of wheeled vehicles approaching Ft. Kearny during May 1850 spoke eloquently about the comedy of errors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.